Rivian’s Getting Busy

[Chris In Milwaukee]

I still have my deposit on one. Don’t know if I’ll buy one just yet, but it’s cool to see that they’re thrashing one to see what it’ll do.

 

[MyNewToy]

I still have my deposit on one. Don’t know if I’ll buy one just yet, but it’s cool to see that they’re thrashing one to see what it’ll do.

Ummm..... he says we are punishing it offroad but I wouldn't consider any of that punishing it offroad.

Those all look like green or 2 star trails

 

[kasnerd]

well it moves, stops and turns. that's an improvement on some.of our trucks. saw them at la auto show. I'm buying when it's more purposeful like a sxs tesla. I don't see how they're gonna have any stamina being that heavy while doin rooster tails and generally having fun. Also, where to recharge, because fun time WAY WAY bigger energy sink than say looking good for a drone shot. I love the idea of torque beyond mental reasoning.

 

[MyNewToy]

well it moves, stops and turns. that's an improvement on some.of our trucks. saw them at la auto show. I'm buying when it's more purposeful like a sxs tesla. I don't see how they're gonna have any stamina being that heavy while doin rooster tails and generally having fun. Also, where to recharge, because fun time WAY WAY bigger energy sink than say looking good for a drone shot. I love the idea of torque beyond mental reasoning.

It has a truck bed

 

[Dukestaco]

I still have my deposit on one. Don’t know if I’ll buy one just yet, but it’s cool to see that they’re thrashing one to see what it’ll do.

Marketing team. “Let’s make a cool minivan” “what do we cal it?” RiViAN. Yeah that works.

 

[Chris In Milwaukee]

Ummm..... he says we are punishing it offroad but I wouldn't consider any of that punishing it offroad.

Those all look like green or 2 star trails

I would say for the “normal joe”, they’re putting it through its paces. It’s not what most in this group would consider punishing.

 

[Chris In Milwaukee]

So I get the impression you all are dinosaur juice burners until they suck it from your cold, dead fuel cells.

 

[Dukestaco]

So I get the impression you all are dinosaur juice burners until they suck it from your cold, dead fuel cells.

We have a Prius but if I have to burn orphans to go get my frapuchino in the morning we’ll then they should of had parents to protect them. Tos one on the grill to Starbucks we go

 

[kasnerd]

I think the point of contention between dinosaur squeezings, liquid diamonds (race juice) or angry pixies (electric) is the technology for power storage isn't there yet.

once that is resolved...the electric has tons of advantages, but as long as there is something to pick on, the old guard is gonna make a bunch of noise over low hanging fruit.

 

[PCTaco]

I've long said that for me to buy an electric vehicle it has to be able to go further on a charge than I can drive without sleeping.

However, the portability of gas as a stored energy isn't going to be beatable for weeklong trips into the boonies for quite some time.

 

[MyNewToy]

I've long said that for me to buy an electric vehicle it has to be able to go further on a charge than I can drive without sleeping.

However, the portability of gas as a stored energy isn't going to be beatable for weeklong trips into the boonies for quite some time.

I feel the same way about going longer than I can drive or be able to pull in any station and be fully charged in 20 mins every 6 hours.

when me and my wife go on long trips we tag team and drive straight through. We have drove from Jackson,Ms to Moab in 22 hours. I need to be able to do that before I buy one.

 

[Chris In Milwaukee]

I agree with all those points. The R1T will have a 400-mile capacity at its highest trim level (not towing, obviously). That's not too shabby. But then again, so does my 4Runner. And I can refill it in a few minutes and go another 400. Batteries don't have that luxury just yet.

 

[4runner DOA]

So I get the impression you all are dinosaur juice burners until they suck it from your cold, dead fuel cells.

Mining for lithium to make batteries is pretty destructive. Let's not forget to mention you can't recycle the batteries either so lots of additional hazardous waste. I'll keep burning my fuel.

 

[Nicklovin]

It’s a good step in the right direction for electric trucks

 

[Chris In Milwaukee]

Mining for lithium to make batteries is pretty destructive. Let's not forget to mention you can't recycle the batteries either so lots of additional hazardous waste. I'll keep burning my fuel.

While I don’t mean for this to become an ecology debate, what makes it more destructive than any other mining op? I haven’t heard of a Lithium spill. Or is it a sociological one? I seem to recall lithium comes from a few limited and exploited areas of the world. I could have just pulled that info out of my backside, though.

 

[4runner DOA]

While I don’t mean for this to become an ecology debate, what makes it more destructive than any other mining op? I haven’t heard of a Lithium spill. Or is it a sociological one? I seem to recall lithium comes from a few limited and exploited areas of the world. I could have just pulled that info out of my backside, though.

https://www.salon.com/2019/06/17/li...ng for lithium — the,the brine to the surface.

 

[kasnerd]

While I don’t mean for this to become an ecology debate, what makes it more destructive than any other mining op? I haven’t heard of a Lithium spill. Or is it a sociological one? I seem to recall lithium comes from a few limited and exploited areas of the world. I could have just pulled that info out of my backside, though.

it's more ecological to fix an old car and use it rather than buy a newer more efficient car. why? the carbon cost for producing a new vehicle is tens of times more environmentally harmful than driving a gas guzzler because that old car's co2 footprint has been spread out already. now if you don't have a car, then buy the battery charged cloud saver family mobile. I'll find the article that describes this much more elegantly than I have.

 

[kasnerd]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-used-cars-are-more-ecofriendly/

 

[Chris In Milwaukee]

https://www.salon.com/2019/06/17/lithium-mining-for-green-electric-cars-is-leaving-a-stain-on-the-planet/#:~:text=Specifically, mining for lithium — the,the brine to the surface.

Very enlightening. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Chris In Milwaukee]

it's more ecological to fix an old car and use it rather than buy a newer more efficient car. why? the carbon cost for producing a new vehicle is tens of times more environmentally harmful than driving a gas guzzler because that old car's co2 footprint has been spread out already. now if you don't have a car, then buy the battery charged cloud saver family mobile. I'll find the article that describes this much more elegantly than I have.

Good stuff. In Wisconsin, we probably reach that limit faster than California desert folks whose vehicles don't dissolve in <10 years.